120 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-currentRe: Donations.| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 3, 1998 3:26 pm | |
| Amancio Hasty | Mar 3, 1998 3:53 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Mar 3, 1998 4:03 pm | |
| Shawn Leas | Mar 3, 1998 4:08 pm | |
| Brian Handy | Mar 3, 1998 4:32 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 3, 1998 5:23 pm | |
| Matthew Thyer | Mar 3, 1998 5:24 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Mar 3, 1998 5:39 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 3, 1998 6:56 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 3, 1998 7:04 pm | |
| Chuck Robey | Mar 3, 1998 7:07 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Mar 3, 1998 7:09 pm | |
| Amancio Hasty | Mar 3, 1998 8:01 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 3, 1998 8:12 pm | |
| Amancio Hasty | Mar 3, 1998 8:16 pm | |
| Chuck Robey | Mar 3, 1998 8:23 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 3, 1998 8:55 pm | |
| Steve Logue | Mar 3, 1998 10:17 pm | |
| John S. Dyson | Mar 3, 1998 11:29 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 3, 1998 11:40 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 3, 1998 11:42 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 4, 1998 12:01 am | |
| Thomas Zenker | Mar 4, 1998 1:13 am | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 4:33 am | |
| ni...@iii.co.uk | Mar 4, 1998 4:41 am | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 4:50 am | |
| ni...@iii.co.uk | Mar 4, 1998 4:52 am | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 5:05 am | |
| ni...@iii.co.uk | Mar 4, 1998 5:11 am | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 4, 1998 5:45 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Mar 4, 1998 6:03 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Mar 4, 1998 6:05 am | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 6:07 am | |
| Marc van Kempen | Mar 4, 1998 6:14 am | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 6:23 am | |
| Karl Denninger | Mar 4, 1998 6:37 am | |
| ni...@iii.co.uk | Mar 4, 1998 7:12 am | |
| Paul D. Robertson | Mar 4, 1998 7:21 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Mar 4, 1998 7:26 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Mar 4, 1998 7:50 am | |
| Chuck Robey | Mar 4, 1998 8:06 am | |
| Amancio Hasty | Mar 4, 1998 8:54 am | |
| Kevin Day | Mar 4, 1998 9:08 am | |
| Kyle Mestery | Mar 4, 1998 9:24 am | |
| Amancio Hasty | Mar 4, 1998 10:02 am | |
| Nate Williams | Mar 4, 1998 10:15 am | |
| Jonathan M. Bresler | Mar 4, 1998 10:18 am | |
| Nate Williams | Mar 4, 1998 10:23 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Mar 4, 1998 10:33 am | |
| Torsten Blum | Mar 4, 1998 10:54 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Mar 4, 1998 11:12 am | |
| Snob Art Genre | Mar 4, 1998 11:23 am | |
| Brian Beattie | Mar 4, 1998 12:44 pm | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Mar 4, 1998 12:52 pm | |
| Leo Papandreou | Mar 4, 1998 12:59 pm | |
| Kevin Day | Mar 4, 1998 1:11 pm | |
| John S. Dyson | Mar 4, 1998 1:11 pm | |
| John S. Dyson | Mar 4, 1998 1:15 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 4, 1998 3:30 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 4, 1998 3:40 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 3:41 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Mar 4, 1998 3:46 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 3:46 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 3:50 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Mar 4, 1998 3:51 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 3:56 pm | |
| Brian Handy | Mar 4, 1998 4:02 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 4:02 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Mar 4, 1998 4:02 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Mar 4, 1998 4:07 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Mar 4, 1998 4:11 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 4:13 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 4:24 pm | |
| Brian Handy | Mar 4, 1998 4:29 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 4:30 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 4, 1998 4:32 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Mar 4, 1998 4:32 pm | |
| John Kelly | Mar 4, 1998 4:37 pm | |
| 42 later messages | ||
| Subject: | Re: Donations. | |
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| From: | John Kelly (ja...@cetlink.net) | |
| Date: | Mar 4, 1998 5:05:11 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-current | |
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:41:49 +0000, ni...@iii.co.uk wrote:
How about one vote for every $250 donated? A donor of $750 would have three votes. Design a ballot with suggested projects, and vote on your favorite 10 in order of preference. The top vote getters become funded.
Will not work. Developers (and other contributors) work on a particular facet of FreeBSD for (as far as I can tell) one of two reasons.
1. They want to.
2. They are employed specifically to do that.
If a developer wants to work on (for example) 'syscons' and all the voters would rather they spent more time on 'networking', the developer can cheerfully ignore all the votes, and do what they want anyway.
Developers who want to choose their own projects can continue working pro bono. But developers who want to get paid for the work should be willing to work under the donors direction.
That's the way it works in the real world. I don't know why some of you are having such a hard time with this idea.
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